#really great characters and atmosphere

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Fallen Thorns

dark urban fantasy coming-of-age

follows a boy settling into university, when after a date (that he didn’t even want to go on) turns bad he’s made into a vampire

as he settles into his new existence and the local vampire community - while they try to find who’s been leaving bodies across the city - he discovers that there’s something different and darker within him

aroace neurodivergent MC

[lady-arryn]

LIES OF P (2023)

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[madame-mongoose]

i need to replay portal revolution when the patch comes out bc i genuinely had a lot of fun and adore stirling and conley. the bugs are just... tough

[abrahamvanhelsings]

real fucking tragedy when you miss a character so much but the media they're from has so many things abt it that you dislike or don't care abt that it honestly would do more harm than good to go back to it

[heckling-hydrena]

I think the reason I like the banshees of inisherin so much is because I first watched it while I was painfully depressed + hated both the process and the result of making art & was also being forced to regularly be around my friend's Painfully Boring asshole boyfriend who I later found out was also abusive. so I was like. I don't agree with Colm but I kinda get it… I'm also having a weird existential crisis and would cut off my own fingers just to make this One Guy leave me alone…

[pipskippy]

theres something abt suzaku and lelouch that makes for really nice atmospheric dreams for me i think it’s a big part of why cg has stuck with me lolll. very fitting actually bc i originally watched it because i kept having dreams about it and got curious…

[fujouppy]

watched whitepine 1. i think i want to gather all my thoughts on part 1 before moving on to the next installments but oh wow im excited to see where this story goes

[sarabyfleetwoodmacmp3]

💭

[silvertws]

The urge to draw some mouthwashing fanart in which Anya beats the shit out of Jimmy because I hate him wholeheartedly and I wish him nothing but suffering.

Videogame characters like him make me wanna scream and shout and let it all out.

I hate when I watch the gameplay, and I put the pieces together so fucking quickly and then I have to keep watching this mother fucker of character being alive.

Thank you devs, you did a great job with that btw. /gen

Normalize giving players the option to fuck up their character if they are a bitch because holy hell Jimmy, you, you deserve to pay.

I could have made this post a while back, but I've been seeing a bit of mouthwashing content going around so, here I am ^^ showing my hatred towards Jimmy.

Curly is not innocent either. But he didn't deserve what happened to him.

Anya deserved better, she was betrayed and used and violated and the only person she had told that to basically shrugged it off and tried to stay "neutral" Curly ily but you physically can't do that. So kindly, fuck you too.

I wish Anya got justice :(

She's best girl and deserves the world :((

Jimmy when I catch you... Jimmy when I get my hands on my graphics tablet...

[eyepatchdate]

Also i read another tom king comic i thought was good like. Every single one ive read has been a banger

[elipsi]

i saw poor things last night! not sure if i liked it, it didn't really stick the landing

[greenerteacups]

I know it's not entirely your decision and you built on what the canon did but I'm curious how you see it so here's my silly question: why IS Moody so useful as a teacher to our protagonists? I mean he's actually competent and useful. WHY?

I was always more or less satisfied with the explanation that he's trying to impersonate a teacher, so he really needs to go full method on the teaching part, or a whole lot of people are going to start asking questions. Also, I don't really see a reason for him to be bad at it, if that makes sense? He needs Harry to do well in the Tournament so he can reach the cup, which gives him an extra incentive to be helpful to Harry's class, even if no one else's. But I don't think Barty is remotely concerned about Harry becoming so competent that he would represent a threat to Voldemort or his servants, since he's still a child. Fourteen year-old Harry Potter does not walk out of that graveyard if it's a fair fight, and Barty doesn't know about the twin cores, so he fully expects Voldemort to just ice the kid and be done with it. Unforgivables are unblockable; there's nothing he can teach Harry in a year that will really matter.

What trips me up about Barty Crouch Jr., in canon, is that he seems so intimately familiar with Moody's mannerisms despite never actually having, like... met the dude? As far as we know? We assume that Moody's a big figure in the war, so he'd know him from afar, but considering the histories here, this is an objectively insane plan: Moody and Dumbledore fought a war together. So did Snape. So like... Barty's plan (afaik) is basically to pray, with every bone in his body, that he can go for a whole year without anyone bringing up any sensitive memories or important shared moments with Moody that might give him away if he can't remember them. In addition to, y'know, completely nailing his posture, mannerisms and speech affect, which maybe the Polyjuice helps with, but IDK. (My point is that the behind-the-scenes staff meetings in Goblet of Fire are some of the funniest exchanges in the whole fucking series, and I would pay to read them.)

Then, of course, you have Snape — and this is the other thing that kinda frustrates me about Book 5, in retrospect — who's a Legilimens. Literally reads minds. Which jeopardizes basically any plot that relies on people having secrets or keeping information from Snape/Dumbledore. It's not by any means an unsolvable plot hole — you can invent a lot of theoretical constraints on Legilimency that explain why Snape couldn't use it on Quirrell, or you could just establish that Barty/Quirrell are really strong Occlumens, which makes plenty of sense to me — or you could just say that Snape is a far better Occlumens than he is a Legilimens, and his attempts at training Harry weren't all that sophisticated. Not hard. That's why it doesn't bother me, either, because I do't think it represents a major inconsistency or fault in plotting; I try to lean into good-faith reading and assume that plot holes are more often indications of insufficient exposition than they are lack of thought. But that's a big YMMV.

[bigthingsforeverintheworks]

yea danganronpa i love that series i mean yeah it's the scourge of the earth but it has kyoko kirigiri & like 5 other good characters

[girlierest]

This would be a deeply foolish idea bc hunting down resources and just like... How to organize but I would love to do an endless gif set series of favourite sets for film/tv/animated as well as favourite outfits ever of all time not ranked but just they live forever in my mind. Just,,,,, AAAAAH those people deserve fat paychecks 🙏🙏😭✨🤌 Some things still sit in my mind years later because they're gorgeous. Like decades later girl. Changed the chemistry in my brain. The brain will block out childhood trauma but remember a design from when I was like 12. The power.